Bit-fastening for bridles



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D. WATERS.

BIT FASTENING FOR BRIDLES.

No. 332,025. Patented Dec.'8, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL VATEBS, OF VILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BIT-FASTENING FOR BRIDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,025, dated December 8, 1885.

Application filed May 26, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL WATERs, of Wilkes-Barre, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Bit-Fastening for Bridles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved bit-fastening for bridles which prevents the rapid wear of the bit end, which is placed on the bitring.

Theinvention consists of abit-ring, on which is formed an annularrecess; of aplate to which the bit-wires are fastened, and which plate is placed around the annular recess formed on the bit-ring.

The invention also consists of various parts and details hereinafter more fully set forth and described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved bit-fastening for bridles, showing one end of the bit attached to the bit-ring. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the same on the lines as a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is avertical crosssection of the same on the lines 1 y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the binring; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the fastening-plate before it is bent.

The bit A is composed of .wires A, which are formed on each end into a loop, B, placed around the cylinder-shaped metal piece (3, having the extension D, which is cut in several places to form the clamping-plates 'D, which are bent from the center of the bit-wires A around each side from the top to the bottom, and inclose and hold the wires A of the bit A firmly together. The bit-ring E is provided with an annular recess, F, around which is placed the cylinder-shaped piece 0, which can turn freely in the annular recess F.

The device is put together by first bending 45 the piece 0 around the annular recess F, and then bending the bit-wires A around the piece 0, to form the loop B. The extension D, as shown in Fig. 5, is placed in the center of the wires A, and then bent around each side, as above described, so as to clamp the wires A firmly to the piece 0. The cylinder-shaped piece G takes up all friction and wear which have been heretofore directly on the end of the bit.

I prefer to use tinned copper wire for the bit, as that metal is not so easily affected by the saliva from the horses mouth.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a bit-fastening forbridles, the bitring E, having the annular recess F, in combination with the cylinder-shaped piece 0, the extension-plate D, the clamping-plates D,and the bit-wires A, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a bit-fastening for bridles, the cylinder-shaped piece 0, the extension-plate D, and the clamping-plates D,i,n combination with the wires A, forming a loop, B, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a bit-fastening for bridles, the combination, with the bitriugs E, having annular recesses F, of the cylinder 0, fitted loosely 012,;

the bit-rings, and the wires A, looped around said cylinder, substantially as herein shown and described.

DANIEL WATERS. Vitnesses:

PHILIP KLINE, THOMAS TAYLOR. 

